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banned books

  • banned books week – considering some frequently challenged classic books.

    Happy Tuesday of Banned Books Week, y’all. Today we are looking at some of the most frequently banned classic books. (Tomorrow we’ll talk about the challenges and bans to modern books in the past few years.) First, as a devoted Potterhead, I have to say that I have been both amused and a little taken… Read more

  • happy banned books week, y’all.

    This week, September 22nd – 28th, is Banned Books Week, ending with Let Freedom Read Day on Saturday. Banned Books Week site. Banned Books Week, of course, is an important event here at the Autoimmune Hippie and I’ll be making daily posts in observance. Today, I’m actually going to recommend a fun little fiction book… Read more

  • banned books friday #26 – getting caught back up – and muddling through billy burroughs.

    Here we are, finally getting caught up on our banned books project – and I have a doozy this week. I had not read any of William Burroughs work before this one – but I went through the obligatory Jack Kerouac reading period in high school and I suppose I expected that this fellow Beat… Read more

  • an uber late banned books friday #25 – the final d.h. lawrence (thank goodness).

    This will be a brief banned books post – as I am writing another post today, sharing some of my recent favorite books I’ve read – and I really don’t need to spend much time on this book I didn’t particularly care for. I was not surprised to discover, after I did not enjoy the… Read more

  • banned books friday #24 – catch-22.

    This week’s banned book is Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. I had not read this one before and it was a long and tedious journey. I have seen it grouped with Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five – I suppose as they are both war satire pieces – but that is really as far as the similarities go. My suggestion is absolutely… Read more

  • banned books friday #23 (on monday) – catcher in the rye.

    I’m a bit off schedule – we had a busy weekend here in the Hippie Hut and I’ll be sharing more later about that – but this past week’s banned book was J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. As I suspect many of us did, I remember first reading the tales of 16 year old… Read more

  • banned books friday #22 – ulysses (is finished).

    This week’s banned book – James Joyce’s Ulysses – has taken me a few weeks to slog through, with several breaks for books that I enjoy – and even a couple of breaks for other banned books. Even last week’s D.H. Lawrence gave me a period of respite – and that is really all we need… Read more

  • banned books friday #21 – more d.h. lawrence (bless).

    Back in Week Two, I encountered D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley – and mentioned then that I was dreading his other two appearances on our list. Well, having stalled as long as I could, my library hold on Lawrence’s Women in Love came around and I could drag my feet no longer. Unlike some other works on… Read more

  • our belated banned books friday #20 – james baldwin.

    This week’s Banned Books Friday – very early Monday morning as my left hip is still completely out with a CRPS flare I cannot contain so my schedule is a bit wonky – is James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. For me, this was another classic reread from my high school days… Read more

  • banned books friday #19 – the book i will not reread for this project.

    ‘Tis Banned Books Friday, everyone. ❤ This has been an incredibly difficult week, so I have not done any reading for our banned books project – though I have read a couple of other good books I plan to share with y’all soon – and I’ve also just started James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on… Read more